Clerk incident

Sign-in Clerk components unavailable for some domains

Resolved after 3 hours 38 minutes, affecting Authentication & User, on May 8, 2026.

resolved May 08, 2026, 02:40 PM UTC

We continue to work with our DNS provider to discover the source of the issue. We currently believe approximately 0.37% of traffic was impacted by being unable to resolve DNS of the CDN that provides ClerkJS.

Started
May 08, 2026, 11:02 AM UTC
Resolved
May 08, 2026, 02:40 PM UTC
Duration
3h 38m
Detected by Pingoru
May 08, 2026, 11:02 AM UTC

Affected components

Authentication & User

Update timeline

  1. investigating May 08, 2026, 11:02 AM UTC

    We are currently investigating an issue where Clerk JS cannot be downloaded, preventing sign in or sign up when using Clerk components. We believe this is related to DNS clerk.[your_domain].com "clerk.[your_domain].com": http://clerk.domain.com, and are working to discover the cause and scope of the issue.

  2. monitoring May 08, 2026, 11:38 AM UTC

    We have observed that failures to load Clerk JS (reported by dashboard.clerk.com: http://dashboard.clerk.com) last occurred 30minutes ago, and this would correlate with failures reported from Clerk applications. We are in contact with our DNS providers to understand the root cause.

  3. resolved May 08, 2026, 02:40 PM UTC

    We continue to work with our DNS provider to discover the source of the issue. We currently believe approximately 0.37% of traffic was impacted by being unable to resolve DNS of the CDN that provides ClerkJS.

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